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BrianB · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: If You're Talking About Skits...

Tom Bednarz as Hawkeye the Detective

There should have been a movie.

Brian

Tom Whelan · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:03 am Post subject: Hawkeye...

I can't say that I recall that particular skit, it rings a bell, but the plot doesn't come to mind.
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Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:56 am Post subject:

It was sometimes called Lester the Detective ("I'm drawing water from my well!", jump over the bucket, under the tree branch, et cetera) with a punch line of "I'm Listerine the Disinfectant"/"Hawkeye the Disinfectant".

Tom B. was one of those people who actually looked like he was running into a tree branch that wasn't there. Heck, I was always just glad he didn't break anything. Very Happy

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Peter Ashworth · Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Oh yeah

rdupontcsr · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: Skit Ideas

Hey guys! It's Rene, the current program director out at cachalot. I wanna bring some new ideas for songs and skits to camp this summer and any help would be appreciated. Is there anything you guys would like to be brought back??? Either repost or e-mail me at: rdupontcsr@comcast.net

By the way... does anybody remember the old tv show on mtv called the state. there's some good motivation and skit ideas that would pulled off that. some of the stuff is off color and we obviously didn't use that but there were some really corny things that worked out perfectly.
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Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject: Re: Oh yeah

Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Skit Ideas

Michael Escobar · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Skit Ideas

Tom Whelan · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 8:01 am Post subject: Raffi

Now that I have children and am constantly listening to Raffi and other children's artists I've realized that the fun songs we sang at Camp are really kids songs. The big difference is that we put a fun spin on them.

Recently I heard Raffi sing 'Down by the Bay', 'Corner Grocery Store (Quartermaster's Store)', 'Boom Boom (Ain't it great to be crazy)', and many others.

This gets me to thinking that:

1) Many of these songs must be in the public domain which makes them fodder for a new songbook.

2) A great place to find new camp songs is on children's albums.

By the way, another great local artist is Steven Songs (Boston area). I went to a children's concert in New Bedford last summer and the kids all loved him.
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Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

I don't know that it's safe to assume that these songs are in the public domain; a lot of these songs get re-recorded by kid's artists under mechanical licenses. There are probably a few, though -- we've got a book of nursery rhymes around here somewhere with something suspiciously like "Quartermaster's Store".

If I remember right, Peter Ashworth brought "Ain't It Great to be Crazy" to camp after seeing the song in one of the songbooks his mother used with her elementary school students. I think "Tie Me Kangaroo Down" came from the same songbook, although that's not where it originated.

Just as many camp songs are folk songs (some of which are very old, and are in the public domain) or are parodies of folk songs.

And Tom, I know you've got kids, but... Raffi? At least buy the family a copy of No! by They Might Be Giants... Wink

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DerekL999 · New User Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

Some songs I remember (and I believe it'd be around 1983-1985) would be :

"The cat came back ... the very next day,
the cat came back ... they thought he was a goner"

Was that a Peter, Paul, and Mary tune? Charlie on the MBTA was another one that was sung.

The Court of King Caracticus was one that I could actually complete. "if you want to take some pictures of the fascinating witches who put the sintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses of the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Caracticus ... you're too late ... cuz they just PAST BY!"

One song our troop (troop 2 of Somerset) used to do alot was the

"If I weren't a boy scout, as you can plainly see, if I weren't a boy scout a <blank> I would be"

and you'd have things like

carpenter "2 by 4 ... and nail it to the floor"
farmer "feed the chickens and milk the cows"
plumber "flush, flush, plunge, plunge, look out below"

and then there was an alternate on a standard

"eat alotta, eat alotta, eat a lotta pizza
oh no, don't drop the pizza ...
Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Gobble Bleh.."

I also remember a skit about the titanic where a director is directing some really stupid people "Say iceberg 3 times ... iceberg 3 times."

Ah memories, I can usually control them with medication.

Derek

Tom Whelan · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: Great memories

Derek, welcome to the forum! Those are some great memories and stir up a lot of my own.

...a dolly I would be. Mommy, Daddy, I love you...
...a mad scientist I would be. Little of this, little of that, little of this, BOOM!

I'd love to hear the entire Court of King Caracticus song because I don't think I've ever heard it before. Sounds like it would be a good one to resurrect (of course it may have been lost due to political correctness, bleh).

It would be great to see you at the Homecoming on July 9 out at Camp. Check out the website for more information!
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Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: What, you mean it wasn't Zoom!?

Dennis Wilkinson · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Great memories

Dennis Wilkinson

Since I'm in a song research kinda mood, and my wife was busy watching bad reality TV, here's a few more interesting links:

Some background on The Ship Titanic. A bit on the academic side, but I thought it was interesting.

The actual song Garryowen. Yes, all one word; yes, two R's -- if we're using the 'traditional' spelling, anywho. This is the regimental march of the Seventh Cavalry, and is apparently a traditional Irish folk tune taken from an Irish regiment (the 7th Cavalry had many Irish immigrants among its soldiers.) The song we sing (one flavor of the lyrics here at the Digital Tradition) might actually be named "Sgt. Flynn".

How about Lily the Pink? Alternately known as The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham.

Two different versions (1, 2) of Seven Old Ladies. Total: 12 different old ladies, excluding the overlap!

Does anyone else remember The Dyin' Hobo?

Finally, Night Riders Lament, which I first heard in Philmont back in '84, turns out to be a fairly recent song, written in 1975 by Mike Burton and recorded by several country & western acts since. I had thought it was a bit older than that, myself, although it doesn't have the right "feel" to be a more traditional song.

In case you hadn't noticed from these links, the Digital Tradition database at the Mudcat Cafe (at http://www.mudcat.org/) is a really good folk/traditional song resource.
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